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Concerning  Indiana  University  Law  School 

THE  FIRST  ESTABLISHED  OF  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY  LAW  SCHOOLS  WEST  OF  THE  ALLEGHANIES 


In  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Michigan,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Missouri,  Nebraska,  Kansas,  Texas,  Colorado,  North 
Dakota,  South  Dakota,  Oregon,  Washington,  and  California  schools  of  law  now  flourish  as  departments 
of  the  State  Universities.  Of  these  State  University  law  schools  the  first  opened  was  the  Law  School  of  the 
University  of  Indiana,  at  Bloomington. 

Its  beginning  was  in  1838,  when  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Indiana  University,  "at  the  first  meeting  of  the 
Board  after  the  College  had  become  a University,"  decided  to  establish  a course  of  law  in  the  University.  Its 
actual  opening  was  in  1 842.  The  catalogue  of  that  year  announced  the  inauguration  of  a department  of  law 
at  Bloomington,  and  declared  it  to  be  the  purpose  of  the  Board  there  to  " build  up  a Law  School  that  shall  be 
inferior  to  none  West  of  the  mountains  — one  in  which  the  student  shall  be  so  trained  that  he  shall  never  in  the 
lawyer  forget  the  scholar  and  the  gentleman." 

The  opening  of  this  State  University  law  school  was  at  that  day  a very  courageous  departure  from  our 
traditions  in  legal  education.  In  Europe,  it  is  true,  the  path  to  the  bar  led  always  through  a University  law 
school;  but  in  England  and  America  the  lawyer  had  for  many  generations  sought  his  professional  education 
in  the  law  office  of  an  older  practitioner.  Our  professional  prejudices  ran  strongly  against  law  school  instruc- 
tion. These  prejudices  have  now  passed,  as  the  100  law  schools  in  America  and  our  15,000  law  students 
bear  witness;  but  in  1842  legal  education  in  America  was  hardly  at  the  threshold  of  the  law  school  age. 
It  was  but  twenty-five  years  after  the  hesitating  opening  of  the  first  University  law  school  in  America,  the  Har- 
vard Law  School;  it  was  but  sixteen  years  after  the  first  State  University  law  school  had  been  established 
at  the  University  of  Virginia.  And  after  the  Indiana  University  Law  School  had  been  opened,  seventeen  years 
passed  before  the  Michigan  University  Law  School  was  established,  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  twenty-six  years  before 
the  next  in  time  of  the  State  University  law  schools  in  the  West  opened  its  doors  in  the  little  University  town 
of  Iowa  City. 


Teaching  of  Procedure 

The  work  in  Civil  Procedure  in  the  Indiana  University  Law 
School  is  two-fold: 

0)  A course  of  class  room  instruction  in  the  underlying  principles 
of  our  existing  system  of  civil  procedure,  as  shown  in  the  statutes  and 
the  cases; 

(2)  A course  of  moot  court  and  practice  court  work  in  the  appli- 
cation of  the  principles  of  pleading  and  the  rules  of  practice. 

The  general  outline  of  the  first  part  of  the  work  is  as  follows: 

(a)  The  forms  of  action  at  common  law.  This  is  designed  to 

afford  a brief  historical  introduction  to  the  whole  subject  of  our  civil 

procedure,  and  incidentally  to  give  the  freshman,  at  the  outset  of  his 
work,  a hold  upon  the  distinctions  between  the  forms  of  action  which  he  meets  in  his  substantive  case  books. 

(b)  The  cardinal  principles  of  common  law  procedure,  with  special  reference  to  those  which  have  sur- 

vived under  the  codes. 

(c)  The  elements  of  equity  pleading,  with  special  reference  to  those  which  reappear  in  the  equity  rules 
of  the  Federal  Courts. 

(d)  The  rise  and  elements  of  code  pleading,  in  America  and  England,  with  special  reference  to  its  lead- 
ing express  enactments. 

(e)  The  principles  and  rules  of  code  pleading,  with  special  reference  to  those  doctrines  of  the  code  which 
have  been  developed  by  the  courts  from  the  express  enactments  common  to  all  the  code  States. 

For  the  second  part  of  the  work  the  following  courses  have  been  established  and  are  carried  on  under  the 
immediate  supervision  of  one  of  the  law  professors. 

(a)  Moot  Court  I,  for  First  Year  Students. 

(b)  Moot  Court  II,  for  Second  Year  Students. 

(c)  Practice  Court  III,  for  Third  Year  Students. 


In  the  Moot  Courts,  questions  of  law  raised  by  pleadings  on  statements  of  facts  are  argued  before  the  Court 
and  decided  by  the  judges  in  written  opinions.  The  question  for  discussion  and  the  statement  of  facts  are 
given  by  the  professor  in  charge  of  the  Court,  who  also  selects,  from  the  students  enrolled  in  the  Court,  the 
counsel  on  both  sides  and  the  judges,  and  sits  with  the  judges  to  hear  the  argument.  The  pleadings  are  care- 
fully framed  by  the  students  under  the  supervision  of  the  instructor. 

The  Practice  Court  presupposes  an  acquaintance  with  the  fundamental  principles  of  pleading.  It  is  organ- 
ized as  a complete  court,  with  a Clerk,  a Sheriff,  a Clerk's  Office,  and  is  fully  equipped  with  such  books,  rec- 
ords, and  blanks,  as  are  required  in  the  Courts  of  Indiana.  The  docket,  the  order  book,  and  the  necessary 
blanks  have  been  specially  prepared  for  this  court.  Further  to  systemize  the  work,  Room  41,  Wylie  Hall, 
has  been  fitted  up  as  a modern  court  room,  with  all  the  accessories.  One  of  the  professors  sits  as  judge. 

It  is  the  purpose  in  this  Practice  Court  to  give  students  who  are  fitted  for  it  a practical  training  in  the  proper 
conduct  of  a civil  action,  from  its  commencement  to  its  termination  in  the  court  of  last  resort.  Each  step  is  taken 
under  the  immediate  supervision  of  one  of  the  professors  in  the  school.  Every  student  enrolling  for  the  work 
is  required  to  prepare  each  term  at  least  two  complete  records  of  an  action,  in  strict  accord  with  the  rules  of 
Indiana  practice. 


PRACTICE  COURT 


SESSION 


The 

Teaching 
Force 

The  law  faculty  of  the 
school  numbers  nine  law 
yers.  Five  of  these  now 
give  their  whole  time  to  the 
work  of  the  school,  four 
give  a portion  of  their  time, 
taken  from  active  practice, 
to  special  law  courses.  a summer  class  in  session 

In  addition  to  the  in- 
struction of  the  regular  law  faculty,  a course  of  lectures  on  special  topics  is  given,  one  lecture  a week,  by  dif- 
ferent judges  of  the  highest  courts  in  the  State  and  prominent  members  of  the  active  bar. 


MEMBER  OF  THE  ASSOCIATION  OF  AMERICAN  LAW  SCHOOLS 


Alone  among  the  law  schools  of  Indiana,  the  Indiana  University  School  of  Law  is  a member  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  American  Law  Schools. 

ENTRANCE  REQUIREMENTS 


Applicants  for  admission  to  the  School  of  Law  must  be  at  least  eighteen  years  of  age  and  be  graduates  of  a 
four-year  high  school  course,  or  show  equivalent  preparation.  Applicants  twenty  years  of  age  or  over  who 
are  not  able  to  satisfy  this  requirement  may  be  admitted  as  special  students. 


THE  THREE-YEAR  TERM 

The  course  of  study  covers  a period  of  three  years  and  leads  to  the  degree  of  LL.B.  There  are  some 
thirty-six  weeks  in  each  school  year. 


The  Law  Library 


The  library  of  the  Law  School  numbers  about 
6,000  bound  volumes. 

The  Reports  in  the  Library  include  the  following: 

(A)  From  the  State  Courts  : 

(1)  The  published  decisions  of  the  Court  of  last  resort,  com- 
plete from  the  beginning,  in  each  of  the  following  States 
and  Territories: 


Alabama 

Kansas 

North  Dakota 

Arizona 

Kentucky 

Ohio 

California 

Massachusetts 

Oklahoma 

Colorado 

Michigan 

Pennsylvania 

Connecticut 

Minnesota 

South  Dakota 

Dakota 

Missouri 

Tennessee 

Illinois 

Nebraska 

Virginia 

Indian  Ter. 

New  Jersey 

Washington 

Indiana 

New  Mexico 

Wisconsin 

Iowa 

New  York 

Wyoming 

(2)  The  published  decisions  of  the  courts  of  last  resort  in  all  the  other  States  from  the  beginning  of  the  National  Reporter  Service. 

(3)  The  current  decisions  of  the  courts  of  last  resort  in  all  the  States,  as  issued,  either  in  the  official  volumes,  or  in  advance  sheets 

and  bound  volumes  of  the  Reporter  Service. 

(4)  The  reported  decisions  of  most  of  the  courts  of  intermediate  appeal,  in  several  States,  are  complete  or  almost  complete. 

(5)  Complete  sets  of  the  ‘American  Decisions,’  the  ‘American  Reports,’  the  ‘American  State  Reports,’  the  ‘Lawyers  Reports, 
Annotated,’  the  ‘American  and  English  Annotated  Cases,'  with  their  Digests  and  Tables  of  Cases. 


(B)  From  the  Federal  Courts  : 

The  Decisions  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  from  its  organization. 

The  Decisions  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals,  from  its  organization. 

The  Decisions  of  the  United  States  Circuit  and  District  Courts,  from  the  commencement  of  the  Federal  Reporter. 


(C)  From  the  English  Courts: 

( I ) Complete  sets  of  the  Law  Reports,  from  1 865  down,  have  been  added  to  the  Law  Library  within  the  year,  including  the 
reports  of  the  Queen’s  (or  King’s)  Bench,  Equity  Cases,  English  and  Irish  Appeals,  Privy  Council  Appeals,  Common  Pleas, 
Chancery  Appeals,  Scotch  Appeals,  Appeal  Cases,  Exchequer,  Chancery  Decisions. 


(2)  The  English  reports  prior  to  1865  are  being  rapidly  added.  The  Library  now  has,  completed  from  the  beginning,  the  de- 
cisions of  the  House  of  Lords,  the  Privy  Council,  the  Chancery,  the  Rolls  Court,  and  the  Vice-Chancellor's  Court.  The 
Library  also  has  a set  of  the  English  Common  Law  Reports,  a set  of  the  Revised  Reports,  and  a considerable  number  of 
the  early  reporters. 

(3)  All  the  current  reports  of  the  King's  Bench,  the  Exchequer  Division,  the  Chancery  Division,  the  Probate  Division,  and  the 

Appeal  Cases  are  received  as  issued. 

(D)  Statutes  in  the  Library  : 

The  Revised  Statutes  of  the  United  States ; the  Session  Laws  of  Indiana  (almost  complete),  the  Revised  Statutes  of  Indiana,  the 
Revised  Statutes  of  several  of  the  other  States. 

(£)  Text  Books,  Digests,  etc.  The  Library  includes  also : 

(1)  Six  hundred  and  twenty-five  volumes  of  text  books  on  the  principal  topics  of  the  law.  This  number  does  not  include  a con- 

siderable collection  of  legal  text  books,  on  topics  of  importance  to  law  students,  which  are  found  in  the  historical  and  political 
science  Departments  of  the  general  Library  of  the  University. 

(2)  The  ‘Century  Digest’  of  all  American  cases  from  1658  to  1896;  the  annual  volumes  of  the  ‘American  Digest’  to  date;  the 

‘Federal  Reporter  Digest’;  all  the  Indiana  Digests;  the  Digests  of  a considerable  number  of  other  States. 

(3)  The ‘A  merican  and  English  Encyclopedia  of  Law’;  the  ‘Encyclopedia  of  Pleading  and  Practice’;  the  ‘Encyclopedia  of 

Forms’;  the  ‘Cyclopedia  of  Law  and  Procedure’ — each  complete  to  date;  and  various  law  dictionaries. 

(4)  A fair  collection  of  legal  periodicals,  including  the  ‘Albany  Law  Journal,’  the  ‘American  Bar  Association  Reports,'  the 

‘American  Law  Review,’  the  ‘Central  Law  Journal,’  the  ‘Columbia  Law  Review,’  ‘The  Green  Bag,’  the  ‘Harvard  Law 
Review,’  complete  from  the  beginning. 


THE  LAW  LIBRARY  INDIANA  UNIVERSITY  LAW  SCHOOL 


Law  Students  Enrolled  in  the  Indiana  University 
School  of  Law 


In  the  year  1903-04  150 

In  the  year  1904-05  187 

In  the  year  1905-06  243 

States  and  Countries  represented  among  the  Law  Students  in  the  Indiana  University  Law  School  in  the 
year  1905-06: 

Illinois  Kentucky  Michigan  Nebraska  Philippines  Utah 

Indiana  Maine  Minnesota  Ohio  Pennsylvania 


Indiana  Counties  represented  among  the  Indiana  Law  Students  enrolled  in  the  Indiana  University  School 
of  Law  in  the  year  1905-06: 


Adams 

Crawford 

Franklin 

Huntington 

Allen 

Daviess 

Fulton 

Jackson 

Bartholomew 

Dearborn 

Gibson 

J asper 

Benton 

Decatur 

Grant 

Jefferson 

Blackford 

Dekalb 

Green 

Jennings 

Boone 

Delaware 

Hamilton 

Johnson 

Carroll 

Dubois 

Harrison 

Knox 

Cass 

Elkhart 

Hendricks 

Kosciusko 

Clark 

Fayette 

Henry 

Lagrange 

Clinton 

Floyd 

Howard 

Lake 

Lawrence 

Ohio 

Randolph 

V anderburgh 

Madison 

Orange 

Rush 

Vermillion 

Marion 

Owen 

Shelby 

Vigo 

Marshall 

Parke 

Spencer 

Warrick 

Miami 

Perry 

Starke 

Washington 

Monroe 

Pike 

Steuben 

Wayne 

Montgomery 

Porter 

Sullivan 

Wells 

Morgan 

Posey 

Tippecanoe 

White 

Newton 

Pulaski 

Tipton 

Whitley 

Noble 

Putnam 

Union 

For  further  information  concerning  the  School  of  Law,  address 


The  Dean  of  the  School  of  Law, 

BLOOMINGTON,  INDIANA. 


INDIANA  UNIVERSITY 


The  Indiana  University  is  situated  at  Bloomington,  the  county  seat  of  Monroe  county.  The  town  has  a population 
of  about  9,000 ; it  is  on  the  Chicago,  Indianapolis  and  Louisville  Railway  (Monon  Route),  about  sixty  miles  southwest 
of  Indianapolis,  and  one  hundred  miles  northwest  of  Louisville;  and  on  the  Indianapolis  Southern,  a branch  of  the  Illinois 
Central,  which  is  now  completed  from  Indianapolis.  The  University  takes  its  origin  from  the  State  Seminary,  which  was 
established  by  act  of  the  Legislature,  approved  January  20,  1820.  In  1828  the  title  of  the  Seminary  was  changed 
by  the  Legislature  to  that  of  the  Indiana  College,  and  in  1838  the  University  was  given  its  present  name  and  style. 
By  virtue  of  the  State  constitutions  of  1816  and  1831,  and  the  acts  of  the  General  Assembly  thereunder,  the  Indiana 
University  is  the  State  University  of  Indiana,  and  is  the  head  of  the  public  school  system  of  the  State. 

Besides  the  School  of  Law  and  the  School  of  Medicine,  the  University  comprises  the  following  Departments 
of  Liberal  Arts; 


Department  of  Greek 

Department  of  Latin 

Department  of  Romance  Languages 

Department  of  German 

Department  of  English 

Department  of  Comparative  Philology 

Department  of  History  and  Political  Science 

Department  of  Economics  and  Social  Science 

Department  of  Philosophy 

Department  of  Education 

Department  of  Fine  Arts 


Department  of  Mathematics 

Department  of  Mechanics  and  Astronomy 

Department  of  Physics 

Department  of  Chemistry 

Department  of  Geology 

Department  of  Botany 

Department  of  Zoology 

Department  of  Anatomy 

Department  of  Physiology  and  Pharmacology 

Department  of  Pathology 


Courses  are  also  given  in  Music  and  Physical  Training.  For  copies  of  the  University  Catalogue,  and  other  publi- 
cations of  the  University,  address  THE  REGISTRAR,  INDIANA  UNIVERSITY, 

BLOOMINGTON,  INDIANA. 


3 0112  105743642 


Growth  of  Indiana  University  in  Recent  Years 


1891- 1892  497 

1892- 1893  572 

1893- 1894  633 

1894- 1895  771 

1895- 18% 879 

1896- 1897  944 

1897- 1898  1,049 

1898- 1899  1,050 

1899- 1900  1,016 

1900- 1901 1,137 

1901- 1902  1,285 

1902- 1903  1,469 

1903- 1904  1,418 

1904- 1905  1,538 

1905- 1906  1,684 


